Girl, mother charged in neck-slashing attack in Allentown

A 17-year-old girl and her mother allegedly barged into an Allentown apartment Wednesday night and attacked the girl's ex-boyfriend, slashing him in the neck with a boxcutter.

Raedawn Shakera Mayo told Allentown police she, her mother and aunt went to the apartment in the 1300 block of Walnut Street with the intent of making Jermain Davis leave her alone. Instead, she and her mother, Tasha Fofano, 34, of Allentown, began punching Davis repeatedly, according to court records.

Mayo told police she got caught up "in the moment" and pulled out a boxcutter and slashed Davis in the neck, according to court records.

Mayo, of the 1000 block of Hamilton Street, was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, criminal trespassing, possession of a weapon and conspiracy. Her mother was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal trespassing and conspiracy.

They were arraigned by District Judge Ron Manescu and sent to Lehigh County Jail, Mayo under $500,000 bail and her mother under $150,000 bail. The aunt was not charged.

The 20-year-old ex-boyfriend required eight stitches to close a wound on his neck and also suffered lacerations to his upper chest, police said. He was later charged when police found a digital scale with cocaine residue in his bathroom.

According to a criminal complaint:

Allentown police were dispatched at 7:03 p.m. to the Walnut Street apartment on a report of a knife slashing. Police spoke to the apartment tenant, who is also Davis' current girlfriend. She told officers her boyfriend was attacked by three women who slashed him with some kind of knife.

Patrol officers searched the area and stopped Mayo and Fofano in the 1000 block of Hamilton Street and Mayo's aunt, Lisa Wuchter, at North 11th and Edison streets. They were identified as the women who barged into the apartment.

Police spoke to Davis in the emergency room of St. Luke's Hospital-Allentown and he said Mayo came to his girlfriend's apartment with her mother and aunt and forced their way inside. He said Mayo and Fofano began punching him and Mayo slashed him in the neck.

Mayo admitted punching and slashing Davis. She said she also suffered cuts to her hands.

Fofano also admitted being in the home, but she said she couldn't say if she hit anyone because of "blacking out" during the assault.

Davis was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Manescu sent him to county jail under $2,500 bail.